One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

The unexpected observation of a cow using a broom to scratch herself isn't necessarily surprising, but it expands our ...

New Delhi, A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest has found that ongoing biodiversity loss may be causing mosquitoes that once ...

A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest has found that biodiversity loss and human expansion may be driving mosquitoes to feed more on humans, raising the risk of disease transmission as animals disappear ...

“It looks like the fish has a large chunk of its skull missing—as though somebody took a little ice cream scoop and took a ...

Climate change has a wide range of effects on wildlife. It affects seasonal migration, reproduction times, body size and mass ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved ...

Long before humans became master hunters, our ancestors were already thriving by making the most of what nature left behind. New research suggests that scavenging animal carcasses wasn’t a desperate ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in an Oklahoma cave, revealing the oldest known example dating back nearly 300 million years.